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by bmj 12y ago
I don't believe the parent is referring to the salary of the employee, but rather the overall cost to the company for that employee.
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by bmj 12y ago
My wife and I eat mostly gluten free because we believe that modern wheat (which is really a different food now) causes inflammation in some people. I spend zero time trying to get anyone else to go gluten free, because except for my famil
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by bmj 12y ago
guaranteed higher education How about "guaranteed job training?" That way, if you wish to pursue a career that does not require a post-secondary degree, you can prepare yourself for that career just as well as the white collar
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by bmj 12y ago
You've reiterated your point about terminal knowledge being the mark of a programmer, but you've not really outlined the reason for it. I'm sympathetic to the view that a programmer should know her tools, but this discussion
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by bmj 12y ago
Yeah, agreed. And my friends who admit to thinking this way, also admit to the ego component (and that it is, perhaps, a problem).
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by bmj 12y ago
I've pointed this out in other threads about this subject, but there are actually employers who pay out a bonus to employees who use 100% of the PTO in a given year.
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by bmj 12y ago
I've talked to some other professionals about this, and for many of them, they readily admit that they feel like they need to be at work for their employer to function properly. They also admit this is their own impression, not someth
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by bmj 12y ago
I suspect that Google (and Apple, and Disney) are finding they can keep talented engineers from CMU in the city after graduation. That's not to say there aren't good, indigenous engineers, but, rather, that Google has a nice farm
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by bmj 12y ago
Allderdice is one of the consistently better high schools in the city, assuming your kids get into the advanced program. Personally, I'm a product of Central Catholic, but many of my friends (who went on to Ivies) came out of Allderdi
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by bmj 12y ago
That's probably true. I'm speaking as a non-CS-educated developer who is content in a "dead-end" job, so you're right, perhaps we are comparing apples to oranges.
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by bmj 12y ago
I'm a life-long Pittsburgher, and my wife and I seriously considered relocating to SLC a few years ago (we are climbers) because it seemed to offer the same level of affordability as PGH does.
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by bmj 12y ago
I am life-long 'burger (aside from 4 years away for university), and this doesn't match my experience (I'm 41, so I've been around the proverbial block here--I lived through the first "renaissance" in East Libe
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by bmj 12y ago
I think "distribution" in this context is just a nice way of saying that poor people can't afford better food from elsewhere, they have to rely on what is cheap and can be bought from the local market. Depends on location,
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by bmj 12y ago
My understanding is that RAND has a similar policy: you receive an additional bonus if you use all of your vacation in a given year. I also believe their vacation allowances (at least for researchers, since those are the folks I know there
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by bmj 12y ago
There's a lot more to car use than simply pollution. Read Illich or Kunstler on the sorts of cultural changes that rapid transportation has produced. I think when Postman speaks of caution, he is arguing against a technocratic perspec
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by bmj 12y ago
I agree. I really want to like it, but moving through history with the arrow keys can often crash that tab.
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by bmj 12y ago
Story-telling is important for society. I'd also argue that even if someone says "oh, I don't read stories," their lives are still very much affected by "stories," many of which are not explicitly told to us
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by bmj 12y ago
And compare that to, say, a WRC car [0], where the most visible piece of information is the current gear. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc9jA5hg6vc
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by bmj 12y ago
So, I work from home a fair bit, and have two kids who are homeschooled by my wife[0]. I tend to get a couple of hours of work done before anyone else in the house is awake (say, 6:00 am - 8:00 am). I will typically work during the kids s
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by bmj 12y ago
If the event winds up being a 2 hour barrage of questions about the NSA, it might be redeemed. Do you actually think the DNC or the President's staff would allow that to happen? This isn't a dig at the Democrats, either--I can&
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by bmj 13y ago
It's about striking the right balance. Yes. My company has tried for a good many years to keep product development partitioned from operations. We build stuff, through it over the wall, and let the ops team deal with it. Certainly
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by bmj 13y ago
And the current, Democratic, administration hasn't exactly rolled back many of these changes, right? My point isn't to criticize the Obama administration, but rather ask: if Hillary Clinton was asked to serve on the board of $you
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by bmj 13y ago
My advice: * Save at least 10% of your income. "At least," because you want both long-term/retirement savings, and a "rainy day" fund for unexpected expenses. * Minimize your debt. If you have lots of debt, priori
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by bmj 13y ago
The issue here is that one side believes this is a civil rights issue, while the other side believes this to be a cultural issue. For the former, this is about repression, but for the latter it is about the moral fabric of culture. The la
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by bmj 13y ago
Or perhaps, the two concerns met in the middle? "How do we achieve $design_feature while perhaps saving a bit budget?"
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by bmj 13y ago
Interesting. My wife had similar issues when she stopped drinking coffee, too. She didn't quit cold turkey, either. I stopped because I suspected the caffeine was contributed to my border-line hypertension. While there isn't ne
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by bmj 13y ago
How much coffee were you drinking a day? I'm curious, because I kicked the habit about a month ago [0], and didn't suffer any ill effects. In fact, I actually felt really good the first few weeks. My habit, though, was relati
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by bmj 13y ago
There aren't many perfect jobs out there. This. After jumping between five jobs (plus some consulting work) over seven or eight years, I've been with the same company for almost eight years now. It is hardly perfect. We screw
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by bmj 13y ago
I had a dumb phone for a very long time, but after trying to navigate a cross-country road trip with a flip phone, I succumbed and upgraded to an iPhone. I can kinda be persuaded by the argument that we give up some of the adventure of t
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by bmj 13y ago
See my comment above: I am under no delusions that cross-platform frameworks are truly cross-platform on the UI level. But, for our app, the UI layer is roughly 50% of the app. What about the core of the business logic? The code in a cro

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